Multi-touch interface

Low cost, scalable multi-touch sensing technology. Looks really awesome to me! If big interactive walls of such multi-touch panels can be built, it would be really great for data visualization and management. I guess one thing I'm skeptical about this technology is how it would work in the sweltering summer when your hands sweat so much and your fingers are so sticky to slide easily across the screen. But whatever, who cares? We are going to use it in well air-conditioned meeting rooms, right?

I haven't touched any of these multi-touch screens but I think this clip is definitely worth watching. Jeff Han is a research scientist at NYU. More information can be found at the bottom of the post. You can also visit SolarisLabs to see another type of technology that does not require you to touch the screen. A wave of the hand can handle the objects just as well!



The introduction by Jeff Han: here
The technology behind multi-touch sensing: here